over 1 year ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design scalable backend architectures for systems supporting billions of transactions.
- Build and operate backend systems serving 100M+ daily active users.
- Optimize APIs to achieve sub-50ms latency.
- Lead technology-focused projects and own high-scale distributed systems.
- Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and promote engineering best practices.
- Use GPT and other AI coding tools for architecture design, prototyping, code reviews, and developer productivity.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience.
- Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, and AWS.
- Proven ownership of high-scale distributed systems.
- Deep knowledge of messaging systems, caching, storage optimization, and cloud scalability.
- Strong architectural thinking and the ability to design systems for billions of transactions.
- Strong leadership, mentoring, and code-review skills.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, preferably from a Tier 1/2 college.
- Experience using or willingness to use GPT, Copilot, and other AI coding tools.
Benefits
- Ownership of real-world, high-scale systems and critical user-impacting platforms.
- Opportunity to work with AI-assisted development and grow toward principal engineer, architect, or CTO roles.
- Pure technology-focused team environment with limited unnecessary meetings and bureaucracy.
About Paytm
Paytm builds a digital payments and financial services platform for consumers and merchants in India, spanning the Paytm app for UPI, wallet and bill pay, plus QR/POS and Soundbox devices for in-store acceptance. It monetizes through payment processing fees, merchant subscriptions, and commissions on financial products such as lending and insurance. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Noida, it is publicly listed in India and serves over 300M users and 20M merchants.